User talk:Ubaltlaw
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The article Ronald H. Weich has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Victor Schmidt (talk) 19:58, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Ronald H. Weich[edit]
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A tag has been placed on Ronald H. Weich, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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Welcome![edit]
Hello, Ubaltlaw, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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January 2019[edit]
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Hello, thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! I have some concerns about your edits I should run through with you.
Firstly, thank you for registering an account. This is a good decision in order to have your activity authenticated and traceable. However, Wikipedia doesn't allow accounts that sound like they belong to a company or a department, only ones that belong to specific people - so 'Susan Smith @ Ubaltlaw' would be fine, 'Ubaltlaw' isn't. So you may soon be asked to reregister under an account that's personal to you, the person sitting typing stuff into the keyboard, or file a name change request.
Next, Wikipedia imposes restrictions on editing where you have a conflict of interest, such as that you are editing on the topic of your organisation or boss. If you are editing Wikipedia for commercial purposes this isn't necessarily a problem, but where appropriate you should immediately file a disclosure statement explaining any conflict of interest to ensure transparency-this is indeed a legal requirement that you have already agreed to under section 4 of the Wikimedia terms of service, which both your organisation, and you personally, could face legal action for failing to comply with. Here's an example of what a disclosure statement looks like.
You should also ensure that all your edits are factual and could not be considered in any way promotional, and are backed up by citations to reliable sources demonstrating them to be true. You also can't reuse copyrighted text.
In general, if you are editing Wikipedia on your organisation, it's best to request an edit to get input from experienced contributors, or if writing an article, write a draft article then run it through the articles for creation process-I can imagine it may feel hard to get on top of all the obligations we impose on paid editors all at once. Below I've put Wikipedia's standard conflict of interest declaration. Blythwood (talk) 20:52, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Ubaltlaw. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page University of Baltimore School of Law, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
- avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
- propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
- disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
- avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
- do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.
In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).
Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.
- Ah, I see you've already been blocked. To get unblocked, as a minimum, you'll need to request a username change, and reassure that you're not going to use Wikipedia to promote your organisation as I explained above. Blythwood (talk) 20:53, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
I am confused[edit]
I do not understand what I have done wrong. Apparently, the name of my account is not good because it doesn't include my name. I am happy to change that. I read the article for first-timers, and I did add several citations from reputable sources. I don't understand how this academic dean is different from Ronald Daniels at Johns Hopkins University or any other college president. I am not trying to be difficult, but I don't know why you think I am advertising something. There is nothing to advertise. It's a profile of a public figure. Can you explain what I should do differently? Thank you.
- I am assuming here that your username indicates that you work for or are affiliated with Ubaltlaw-obviously if you just happen randomly to be its biggest fan then the following would not apply.
Wikipedia considers advertising to be a broader topic than just writing "hey come study at our law school! We're really cheap!" If you're writing an article on your boss, adding backlinks to your boss's website from Wikipedia, you're making the case that your university is an organisation that employs distinguished people, the kind of people who have Wikipedia pages. It's indirect marketing and search engine optimisation and, at the very barest minimum, you need to file a COI declaration so people can see what you're doing. Note that all this applies whether or not this person is eligible for a Wikipedia page, which I think he may well be. (Also please note that I'm not an admin so I can't unblock you. For that you will need to file a formal unblock request, as described above.) Blythwood (talk) 21:15, 3 January 2019 (UTC)